Aromatherapy For At Home Use

Relaxing, refreshing, energizing, better sleep. What do you want from your spa time? You can get any of these and plenty more, just with the use of aromatherapy. It’s true. Our sense of smell plays a very big part in our well-being. It also plays a big part in how we feel.

What is Aromatherapy

Aroma, the scents that you smell, and those that surround you. Therapy, the process of helping us. So aromatherapy is using scents and our sense of smell to help us. Simple, huh?

We know how easy it is for us to feel hungry just from smelling fresh bread baking. We know that dinner smells great when it’s just onions frying in a pan. So we know that our noses play a big part in our stomach needs.

Not a big leap to realize that our noses play a big part in how our emotions are. That’s just simply aroma. Aroma can help us relax, reduce stress, calm our nerves and plenty more.

Essential Oils for Aromatherapy

Essential oils are just the pared down oils from natural scents. Things like lemon, vanilla, mint, chamomile are just extracted from their natural sources and made into oils. These oils can be used in warm water to release their scents into the air.

Those scents in the air are what we smell and what helps us. Different scents help us in different ways. Lots of different ways. That’s just plain old aromatherapy.

If you want to do some creative testing of your own, get a set of essential oils and start playing with them. Add a few drops to warm water and see how you feel. See how your own mood and sense of well-being change.

There is plenty of information about how different scents effect us. Each set of essential oils typically comes with some explanation of those scents and what they can do. So get a set, try it out for yourself.

 

 

Enjoying Scented Bubble Baths

Did you know that scented bubble baths can help relax you? Help put you in a better mood? Energize your mind and body? Even calm your over active imagination?

So how can this be? With aromatherapy. That’s the art of choosing which scents you will use for your bubble bath. Literally. Different scents improve, enhance and help us.

Our nose plays a very important part in our mood and well-being. This is something that has been studied and verified for many ages. It’s not new. It’s just that we might not be aware of it. Or have forgotten it, maybe?

Did you know the mint scents, like spearmint or peppermint, are great energizers? It’s true. They can help with your mental concentration, give you a little more energy and perk you up when you are dragging. A mint scented bubble bath is great before an evening out, or to kick off your morning.

Try an evening bubble bath with vanilla. That scent helps you relax, soothe your nerves and get you ready for a nice sleep.

So take a few minutes, fill your tub with the kind of scent that you want, and improve yourself. A little pampering with the right scent can go a long way in helping you.